What Broke Your Jane’s Fandom?

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Re: What Broke Your Jane’s Fandom?

#41 Post by Stickyfingers » Thu Aug 13, 2020 11:41 pm

Dave Navarro was the first traitor to the spirit of the band, playing with Cristina Aguilera, Puff Daddy, Michael Jackson.

Perry was still weirdo bizarre during Enit or even during SYTBS, but Dave was on sale for big bands, RHCP Gun's'Roses and media coverage.

At that time I didn't want to say I liked Jane's Addiction because kids answered me: "Oh yes, Dave Navarro, he's cool".

When i saw Carmen Electra dancing in the True Nature video i knew it was all over.
I never thought i would see a "Baywatch" lifeguard on Janes video, music was ok but it was disgusting to see wives dance like sluts since I had seen the art of Casey Niccoli infused in that legendary band.

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#42 Post by kv » Fri Aug 14, 2020 12:02 am

Eric tried for Metallica... :noclue:

I can't fault any of them for trying big money gigs...

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Re: What Broke Your Jane’s Fandom?

#43 Post by nestos » Fri Aug 14, 2020 3:27 am

For me, it slowly decreased after Strays but this is TPC that brought the first nail.
However, I was still interested in what Perry could do (although songs were getting worse and worse)
I also remember having expectations with the 2008 reunion but the shows I saw on YT were pretty boring (OK, except the Sidney gig filmed by Moshcam)
Since that, I don't give a damn shit about their music anymore.
TGEA is simply not what I want to hear. It has never be.
I keep on playing Triple X and GGU.
Only those two.

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#44 Post by cabangbangq » Fri Aug 14, 2020 8:50 am

kv wrote:
Fri Aug 14, 2020 12:02 am
Eric tried for Metallica... :noclue:

I can't fault any of them for trying big money gigs...
Wild that he did that but turned down the opportunity to play bass in Tool before they did Aenima.

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#45 Post by Diabolik » Fri Aug 14, 2020 12:11 pm

First crack was getting some live show from Vegas in like 2002 and they did an instrumental Pink Floyd cover and while interesting, I had concerns. Felt like a bloated rock star move

Then I heard Bring the Mood, and the douche chills began.

When they cut the original ending bit of True Nature—I was perplexed, clearly they weren’t making good artist choices.

Strays was way too RAWK for me, drumming was typical and boring...felt like they took all the cred they had and cashed in to be a big rock band....And it only halfway worked...if that.

I followed them, but without fervor

Then it all just went down hill...

Sat Party album cover was a massive warning sign ( again terrible artistic choices )

Perry Doing JA tunes with that band the String Cheese Incident....horrible and sad.

Cabinet Boxset was cool...Reunion was great to finally see Eric with them live...No new tunes was the Final nail for me.

It was obvious they didn’t care anymore Or Perry didn’t...

Now they are a curiosity. Love 1.0 and listening to those shows and albums occasionally...Being a fan was big part of my music identity growing up.

Now, they are just a band I used to love

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#46 Post by kv » Fri Aug 14, 2020 3:27 pm

Ya I agree with your post a lot...many solid points I related to

Vegas...when they started leaking new songs live...and I heard "true nature"...and 1000% the "into the flesh" cover turned my head to ok Dave has some control now...(I wasn't happy when I heard what suffer some sounded like then either) then the next show after they played bring the mood....I remember leaving the Vegas show with a friend who had never seen Jane's and being bummed for him that's what he finally saw...

pretty sure I only saw them twice after that...Wiltern New year's Eve show the last time I payed to see them (also my narcotic sobriety date! (It was new years after all I'd been clean for two years till that night )...Etty on stage, more covers, bad opening bands...the end was very near....then that followed by the la cita club show where they let in less than 20 people from the line and filled the place with the rich people who they let in the back...the A,B,C,D listers while their die hards, who they said the show was for, got fucked (I will always give them credit for trying to make right and holding a show for the fans next, but they should have never made the other show public if it was an industry show) as I left that club show with Eric on bass and another friend who had never seen them but loved them since the kxlu days...he summed it up perfect...."that was fun...at least I have an idea of what they were" exactly, I've never seen them since

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#47 Post by somethindalisomethin » Fri Aug 14, 2020 10:14 pm

Perry's new box set just sends douchebag shivers down my spine.

How could the Perry I thought I knew sell out so obviously like that?

It's weird, people don't normally change that much. I mean we're all here just like we were 20 years ago but somehow Perry just transformed over the years from the coolest person ever to literally the biggest douchebag ever.

How does that happen?

I think if Perry ate a mushroom now his head would explode when he realized with deep profundity what an ass he has become.

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#48 Post by dannyboy » Sun Aug 16, 2020 4:13 am

somethindalisomethin wrote:
Fri Aug 14, 2020 10:14 pm


I think if Perry ate a mushroom now his head would explode when he realized with deep profundity what an ass he has become.
Or he might turn into Bali

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#49 Post by Diabolik » Sun Aug 16, 2020 11:12 am

Not sure Perry changed more than most

Guy has a family, I assume he’s rich beyond my wildest dreams but who knows.

The box set is weird, but I’m sure it’s a way for him to control those recordings, and later in life Perry has seemed to need validation that HE is the creative force behind everything.

This box set is more propping that up. Older Perry has gotten the more he seems to to view JA something that drags him down. He seems to use it for money and leverage—bjt his heart is in all the weird solo stuff that, he seems to crave be more relevant that his past.

It’ll never happen—but that seems to have driven him since like the early to mid 2000s

I hate to say it, but probably Etty reinforces that “he’s more than Jane’s Addiction, you can do stuff better without them”

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#50 Post by Pandemonium » Sun Aug 16, 2020 11:47 am

At lot of what Diabolik and KV said factors into my arc with Janes.

With me, I was already losing my passion for the band once it was public they were breaking up after the Lollapalooza tour in '91. Add to that, I thought that last V1.0 show I caught at Irvine Meadows really wasn't great compared to the 1990 Palladium or '89 JA Ford Theater shows I had previously seen. Although my opinion of Deconstruction has greatly improved over the years, when it was first released, I did not like it at all, mostly due to Eric's vox. I probably listened to the 3 JA studio albums half a dozen times between '93-'97. They just fell completely off my radar. To be fair, this period was when I finally settled down, was working 2 jobs, got married and we had our son so there was a lot of other stuff going on during the mid-90's and my interest in rock music in general was at a nadir.

The Relapse/Enit show in '97 in San Francisco greatly rekindled my feelings that there was a lot left in the tank but that quickly faded when nothing came of it. The 2001 Hollywood Bowl show with Hole opening really killed my hardcore interest in the band - aside from the cool opening bit with Kettle Whistle and the P4P/Perry solo stuff, the show was meh. After that, Janes was in the category of "Bands I'll see if it's convenient" like The Cult, Guns n' Roses, Pretenders, etc.

I probably would have skipped the NYE show in 2002 at The Wiltern but I wanted to do *something* for NYE and that was the logical choice. And yeah, like KV says, that was a mostly lame show with Vegas Perry in full bloom. I was shocked how stick-in-the-mud boring Cheney was on bass. I initially liked Strays but it was a mostly generic "rawk" album that didn't hold my attention. I didn't bother to see them again until the run of Hollywood club shows in '08/'09 and the '09 NINJA tour which I thought was a mostly mediocre show with Eric already in sullen "I Want Out" mode.

I haven't bothered to see them again since 2012.

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#51 Post by Diabolik » Sun Aug 16, 2020 11:58 am

Slightly OT:

Didn’t realize this boxset has new music ( taken from his website )

Turn Over The World ft Starcrawler - Perry Farrell new music

Vast Visitation ft. Recording of Jim Morrison - Perry Farrell new music

Cling To Life- Kind Heaven Orchestra- new music

Love Feedback- Kind Heaven Orchestra new music

🤷‍♂️

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#52 Post by someguy » Sun Aug 16, 2020 3:59 pm

Diabolik wrote:
Sun Aug 16, 2020 11:58 am
Slightly OT:

Didn’t realize this boxset has new music ( taken from his website )

Turn Over The World ft Starcrawler - Perry Farrell new music

Vast Visitation ft. Recording of Jim Morrison - Perry Farrell new music

Cling To Life- Kind Heaven Orchestra- new music

Love Feedback- Kind Heaven Orchestra new music

🤷‍♂️

I wonder if cling to life=cling to you

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#53 Post by somethindalisomethin » Mon Aug 17, 2020 1:12 am

Perry's had a hard life. I was just listening to the up of his magazine article recitation (kxla) of his running away and from the get go he was behind so I hope he has, and is enjoying, all the riches he has deservedly acquired.

It's just that Etty sucks the life out of everything and I guess I just genuinely wished Perry more than that in his old age for all that he has given us.
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#54 Post by somethindalisomethin » Mon Aug 17, 2020 1:15 am

Diabolik wrote:
Sun Aug 16, 2020 11:58 am
Slightly OT:

Didn’t realize this boxset has new music ( taken from his website )

Turn Over The World ft Starcrawler - Perry Farrell new music

Vast Visitation ft. Recording of Jim Morrison - Perry Farrell new music

Cling To Life- Kind Heaven Orchestra- new music

Love Feedback- Kind Heaven Orchestra new music

🤷‍♂️
who would pay $300 for that?

Guaranteed Etty was the one who set the price on that.

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#55 Post by somethindalisomethin » Mon Aug 17, 2020 2:44 am

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Etty is the Eugene Landy to Perry as Eugene Landy was to Brian Wilson?

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#56 Post by Larry B. » Mon Aug 17, 2020 7:42 am

That’s not how you shape that sentence.

Etty is to Perry what Eugene was to Brian Wilson.

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#57 Post by Mescal » Mon Aug 17, 2020 10:12 am

somethindalisomethin wrote:
Mon Aug 17, 2020 1:12 am
Perry's had a hard life. I was just listening to the up of his magazine article recitation (kxla) of his running away and from the get go he was behind so I hope he has, and is enjoying, all the riches he has deservedly acquired.

It's just that Etty sucks the life out of everything and I guess I just genuinely wished Perry more than that in his old age for all that he has given us.
Of course he deserves it.

He should just stay out of the spotlight. Like Kris Novoselic.

If you have nothing more to add, just stop. We could even have forgiven strays in the sense that: well at least they've tried. They should've just called it quits after that strays tour and save us and them a lot of embarressement

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#58 Post by Diabolik » Mon Aug 17, 2020 5:49 pm

Oh...never, but it’ll be steaming I think.

One thing I Noticed over the years, Perry would do a remix or a new solo single and there wasn’t even enough Excitement for it to be easily available.

Says a lot.

Also was “Cling To You“ An aborted Reznor sessions song?
somethindalisomethin wrote:
Mon Aug 17, 2020 1:15 am
Diabolik wrote:
Sun Aug 16, 2020 11:58 am
Slightly OT:

Didn’t realize this boxset has new music ( taken from his website )

Turn Over The World ft Starcrawler - Perry Farrell new music

Vast Visitation ft. Recording of Jim Morrison - Perry Farrell new music

Cling To Life- Kind Heaven Orchestra- new music

Love Feedback- Kind Heaven Orchestra new music

🤷‍♂️
who would pay $300 for that?

Guaranteed Etty was the one who set the price on that.

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#59 Post by Larry B. » Mon Aug 17, 2020 8:14 pm

Diabolik wrote:
Mon Aug 17, 2020 5:49 pm
One thing I Noticed over the years, Perry would do a remix or a new solo single and there wasn’t even enough Excitement for it to be easily available.
Perry did a 'live release' via YouTube of his Pirate Punk Politician song and, if I remember correctly, there were either 6 or 16 viewers. It was absolutely pathetic. After about a week of the song being on YouTube, it had less than one thousand views.

No-one cares about him.

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#60 Post by Mescal » Mon Aug 17, 2020 11:19 pm

I heard Pirate Punk Politician on national radio here.

I must say, when it came on, I didn't turn off the radio

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#61 Post by nestos » Wed Aug 26, 2020 7:16 am

Diabolik wrote:
Sun Aug 16, 2020 11:58 am
Turn Over The World ft Starcrawler - Perry Farrell new music
I'm pretty interested in hearing this one

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#62 Post by kv » Wed Aug 26, 2020 1:45 pm

I like them too that's why I am def not gonna ever listen to that song...

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#63 Post by Easton » Thu Aug 27, 2020 4:42 am

Mescal wrote:
Mon Aug 17, 2020 11:19 pm
I heard Pirate Punk Politician on national radio here.

I must say, when it came on, I didn't turn off the radio
The song is pretty decent, a bit overproduced.

The dance routine during the live version is pathetically bad though, it's quite embarrassing.

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#64 Post by Juana » Thu Aug 27, 2020 5:01 am

no longer related to the 10 song lounge act they became after Jubilee Tour

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#65 Post by MicrowavedGerbil » Wed Sep 23, 2020 2:32 pm

kv wrote:
Wed Oct 31, 2018 2:28 pm
Perry trashing us on xiola after etty stirred shit up.
What?! I need more info.

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